Packaging-machine.



No. 774,774. PATENTED NOV. 15, 1904.

' A; & J. H. MoLBOD.

PACKAGING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 30. 1903. RENEWED APR. 5, 1904. no MODEL. 1*

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ANGUS McLEOD AND JOHN MoLEOD, OF MARIETTA, KANSAS.

PACKAGING-MACHINE.

ming part of Letters Patent No. 774,774, dated November 15, 1904.

SPECIFICATION for 5,1904. $erial1lo.203,352. (No model.)

Application filed April 30, 1903. Renewed April 1 To whom it y Concern/f tion. A feed-regulating slide G is movable Be it known that we, ANGUS MoLEoD. and 1 across the upper portion of the throat?) and 5 JOHN H. MGLEOD, citizens of the United may be clamped in any adjustmentby the screw States, residing at Marietta, in the county of g, a gage-plate H being supported adjustably out of the hopper to form a stop Marshall and State of Kansas, have made cerupon the fr tain new and useful Improvements in Packagfor the feed-slide and to indicate the point to ing-Machines, of which the following is a which said slide should be adjusted for any 55 specification. particular purpose.

This invention is an improvementin packag- The feed-roller D may be revolved in any ing-machines, and especially in force-feed desuitable manner, and when we employ the vices for flaked or powdered material; and the agitator I within the hopper C it is preferred 'sts in certain novel constructo gear the shaft 2' of said agitator with the invention cons1 6o 'llbehereshaft D of the feed-roller by means of the tions and combinations of parts, as Wl inafter described and claimed. sprocket-pulleys and chain J, as shown in In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical lon- Figs. 2 and 3. This agitator I will be found useful in handling powdered goods-such as gitudinal section on about line 1 1 of Fig. Fig. 2 is a cross-section ion about line 2 2 of baking-powder, borax, and the like-but will 5 Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the feed not ordinarily be found necessary in handling apparatus, and Fig. i is a detail perspective flaked goods, such as rolled oats, for which view of the cut-off. 'nvention is especially adapted the present 1 On the table or base A is mounted the disand in handling which the machine has proved charge-chamber B, upon which is mounted the m very satisfactory.

hopper C, thehopper discharging to the cham- As before suggested, the discharge-spout ber B, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The feed- E is arranged or set to one side of the face of 2 5 roller D is journaled at D and operates withthe roller and is thus brought out of line with in the chamber B and is provided on its pethe vertical portion of the throat 7), an inriphery with the outwardly-pro 'ecting pins (Z, clined surface 1/ extending between the ver- 7 which operate to discharge the flaked, grantical portion of the throat B and the spout E, ular, or powdesed material in the operation as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

of the invention. The discharge-spout E is Having thus described our invention, what arranged at the bottom of the chamber B an we claim as new, and desire to secure f Letbeneath the roller D-that is to say, not In ters Patent, is-

line with the feed side of the said roller, but 1. Theimprovement in packaging-machines slightly under the roller, so as to check the herein described, comprising the hopper, the 3 5 force of the material before it discharges from discharge-chamber below the hopper and prothe spout E and enters the weighing devices. vided at one side with the throat for the ma- (Not shown.) The purpose of this is to preterial and with an inclined face connecting the vent the force of the discharge of the matevertical portion of said throat with the disrial from the spoutE fromafiecting the weighcharge spout, the discharge-spout being arhe weighing devices may ranged at the lower .end of the dischargeconstruction, and it does chamber, the feed-roller journaled in the disto illustrate the same charge-chamber, and above the feed-spout, the latter being to one side of the feed-face d roller, the pins projecting from 40 ing operations.

be of any ordinary not seem necessary herein.

A cut-off slide F is mounted on the table I of the sai and may be adjustedacross the throat b of the the periphery of the roller, the agitator opdischarge chamber B, such slide F being crating in the hopper and geared with th notched at one end at f to permit the passage feed-roller, the cut-off slide adjustable acros of the pins (Z in the operation of the inventhe throat of the discharge-chamber, the feed regulating slide, and the gage-plate for said the out-oif and regulating slides crossing the slide, substantially as set iiortlh. l feed-throat, substantially as set forth.

The combination wit tie iopper, and the feed-roller, of the discharge-cham ber hav- 5 ing the feed-throat to one side of the roller, C J

an having an upright portion, the discharge- Witnesses: spout below the roller and out of line With P. G. WADHAM,

the upright portion of the feed-throat, and KATHERINE FUNCK. 

